Jennifer Galvão is a writer and teacher from New York. She has an MFA in fiction from the University of Michigan. She teaches and edits at Kenyon College.
She is the 2023-2025 Kenyon Review Fiction Fellow.
I am curating a folio for The Kenyon Review themed around “Visitation.”
I’m at work on a historical fiction novel about shellfish, dementia, and Portugal’s Carnation Revolution.
In my short fiction, I write about girlhood, boybands, martyrdom, and the fanaticism of female friendship.
Currently…
Awards & Fellowships
Kenyon Review Fellowship, 2023-2025
Semi-finalist, James Jones First Novel Fellowship Contest 2023
1st Prize, Teach! Write! Play! Fellowship, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing 2024
Tin House Summer Workshop Participant 2024
Sewanee Writers’ Conference Contributing Participant 2023
Luso-American Fellowship Finalist, DISQUIET 2023
Geoffrey James Gosling Novel Prize, 2022
1st Prize, Hopwood Novel Award, 2022
awarded by Brit Bennett & Matthew Salesses
Select Publications
Forthcoming: Stylite, Hayden’s Ferry Review
Why We Chose It: “Prolonged Exposure”, The Kenyon Review
Degenerate Matter, Masters Review 2022 Summer Short Story Award,
honorable mention awarded by Kristen Arnett
